Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the dental focus sanitation qualified as medically necessary treatment covered by compulsory health insurance.
Decisione estratta
No; the measures were dental treatment, not medical treatment, and the statutory exceptions for dental coverage did not apply.
Motivazione estratta
The decisive criteria are the treatment approach and therapeutic objective. Here, the extraction and bridging were therapeutic measures on the chewing system; their direct aim was removal of the dental focus, while endocarditis prevention was only an indirect purpose.